Remember? How as kids we walked to the river and threw stones at it
Now all we have is a strange longing,
A longing to hide forever in that moment
Where we hurl a stone into the river and hold our breath to hear the splash
Wishing we never run out of stones to throw and streams to listen to.

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Kiran Gandhi is a writer from Kerala looking for humour even in desperate circumstances. A writer of literary fiction mainly, his short story ‘Reverse Swing’ was published as part of an anthology. He blogs at https://kirangandhiblog.wordpress.com/ where he shares his writing exploits and random observations. His work was also published as part of the #vss365 anthology of Very Short Stories (Volume One).